Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When pawky Playwright Charles MacArthur became editor of Theatre Arts magazine eleven months ago, he didn't expect that all his "conditions of employment" (one of them was getting Lana Turner for his secretary) would be met. But he did expect enough cash in the till to pay the magazine's bills...
Recently, he returned from a European tour to find that Publisher-Impresario Alexander Sandor Ince, whom the staff called "the headlong Hungarian," had romped through most of the magazine's capital, including $30,000 from Doris Duke. Hiring & firing had taken a whimsical turn: Playwright William Saroyan, hired as a drama reviewer, was fired before he got a single review into print. Ince had not collected for many ads, and distribution was a mess: Theatre Arts, seldom to be seen in the Times Square theater district, was going begging on newsstands in Chicago flophouse neighborhoods. Yet somehow, circulation...
...quoted newspapermen are the drama critics of its nine dailies. How the average play producer feels about them is summed up in a current comedy by a character who calls them "middleaged men on the aisle who hated Mickey Mouse when they were kids." Nevertheless, a producer or a playwright is usually glad to quote critics in large display ads when they have something good to say about his show...
...been left in the attic. Under his psychoanalyst's orders, a mousy, middle-aged English taxidermist (Ernest Truex) stalks sex on a Connecticut weekend. All the women in the house beat a path to his door-the housekeeper (Sylvia Field), the hostess (Grace McTarnahan) and a worldly lady playwright with heart of brass (Vicki Cummings...
...early history plays, Anne is still a thing of words-high speeches, soliloquies, numerous occasions where phrases that seem hot off the typewriter jostle others that seem worthy of black letter. At moments the language has energy, but in general whenever the poet in Anderson stirs, the playwright distinctly suffers...